Far north boomers bust electric grooves

The Atherton Tablelands couple have always been musically inclined but have recently moved into electronica music for something completely different.

Mr Lee Ross says the response from friends of their age group is mixed.

"You have got the more traditional ballad type rock and roll people and that is fine, I love ballads, I love rock and roll," he said.

"This is just a new avenue that we are exploring and some people like it and some people don't."

He says when he is composing he focuses on creating "energy, a pulsing beat and a good tune".

"We've got a couple of apple macs and we've got garage band, which is a fairly standard application and you can make music on that," he said.

"I do most of the writing and arranging and producing and Amanda takes care of the vocals and the lyrics."

Amanda Lee Ross says her husband Darren had been writing other genres for a long time, but never had any interest in electronica.

"Once he had heard some of the stuff, he realised he could do it and he actually writes, I think really well," she said.

"They don't sound similar, but there really are some basics and sometimes it is even just the fact that you know how to play a keyboard, which just makes it easy when you are looking at the instrumentation on the computer."

She says her time at university in the 1990's is where their love for electronica began.

"I didn't go to university until I was a little bit older, and when I went to university in the early nineties, trance and garage was the new thing," she said.

"So I got quite in to it then, but never thought we'd ever be playing that kind of stuff."